Destinations · Maryland
Columbia
MD · 39.2403, -76.8394
From Columbia, Maryland, Byway's registries place 14 scenic byways within 30 miles.
Get in
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport () is approximately 16 miles (24 km) from Columbia. RTA operates bus service between the airport and Columbia.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic National Road - Maryland · 5 mi · national
- Star-Spangled Banner Byway · 7 mi
- Baltimore's Historic Charles Street · 12 mi · national
- Falls Road · 13 mi
- National Historic Seaport · 13 mi
- Horses and Hounds Scenic Byway · 17 mi
Lookouts
- Friction Wall Overlook · 3 mi
- Putney's Bridge · 6 mi
- Old quarry filled with trash · 6 mi
- Cliff overlooking Quarry Lake · 7 mi
Named places
- Howard County Center of African-American Culture · 1 mi
- Howard County Center of African American Culture · 1 mi
- St. John’s Episcopal Church · 2 mi
- Ellicott City Colored School · 3 mi
- Main Street Ballroom · 3 mi
- The National Road · 3 mi
- Museum of Howard County History · 3 mi
- Ellicott Mills Children's Museum · 3 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Ellicott City · 3 mi
- Patapsco Valley State Park · 5 mi
- Hanover · 7 mi
- Savage · 7 mi
- Baltimore/West Baltimore · 8 mi
- Laurel · 10 mi